Dare to Make a Deal with The Devil?

We understand. These are desperate times. But we caringly caution you…that you may not want to stoop so low that you let your soul go! Let us entertain you in the safety of The Midnight Library Reading Room, as we learn of those who struck the ultimate deal...with The Devil.

(No devils were harmed in the making of this story)

Special Thanks to Sounds Like and Earful Music Supply for the amazing music AND sound design during this episode.

Satan in his magnificent palace in Pandaemonium, the capital of hell, in John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Drawn by Gustave Dore and engraved by Pannemaker- Doms.(Getty Images)

Dr. Fian showing penitence for his wicked life to his jailer and chaplain the morning before his escape from prison. From Daemonologie; Newes from Scotland

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876 book Faust, Part I by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cover and first page of 1876 book Faust, Part I by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, decorated by Rudolf Seib, published by Stroefer & Kirchner, large German edition: 51x38cm, located in the Tamoikin Art Fund

FAUST!

Page 004 of von Goethe's Faust, translated by Bayard Taylor and illustrated by Harry Clarke.

Faustus Manuscript in the Huntingdon Library

Twardowski z diablem

Sigismund Augustus and Barbara at the Radziwiłł court in Vilnius

The Death of Barbara Radziwiłł.

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